Moving from meeting to meeting at Geneva Watch Days, it?s easy to get lost in the opulent, luxurious novelties. But when you meet with Armin Strom, you?re brought back to a kind of pure watch nerdery that transcends the luxurious surroundings of shows like this. Armin Strom, even while producing watches that I think are objectively great looking, is all about mechanical innovation. There isn?t a watch in their collection that doesn?t have a novel mechanical trick up its sleeve. The Gravity Equal Force that Zach looked at recently is a great example. It has all the aesthetic and design trappings of what we think of as today?s modern high end indie watchmaking, but the real appeal lies in the watchmaking itself. It?s an important distinction that most enthusiasts understand intrinsically – some watches and brands just have a laser focus on engineering, and that?s sort of what sets Armin Strom apart. 
The brand?s big Geneva Watch Days release is, simply put, a showstopper, and perhaps the most fascinating watch of the week. It?s certainly a significant horological accomplishment. The Dual Time GMT Resonance First Edition takes Armin Strom?s already unique take on the resonance concept and shrinks it down to an almost impossible to believe size in a watch that takes a completely novel approach to timekeeping and provides a great deal of practical functionality to make it downright approachable. It also just happens to be a stunning piece of horological art in motion,...